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Human Resources for eye health: ensuring a smooth pipeline

Community Eye Health Journal, 2018
Health workforce planning improves when activities in the education system align with labour market dynamics.
Daksha Patel
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Pakistan human resources for health assessment, 2009

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, 2010
Pakistan faces a human resources for health (HRH) crisis. A cross-sectional survey was conducted to overview frontline health workers. A total of 750 health facilities were surveyed across Pakistan. The median estimate of public sector health care workers in the district health system in Pakistan is 417 288, including 46 153 estimate of public sector ...
Hafeez, A, Khan, Z, Bile, K M, Jooma, Rashid, Sheikh, M   +4 more
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Investment in human resources improves eye health for all

Community Eye Health Journal, 2018
There is a widening gap between the need for eye health workers and their availability in low-income countries. Change will come once governments recognise the health workforce as a productive investment, not an expense.
Daksha Patel, Suzanne Gilbert
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Assessment of interventions to attract and retain health workers in rural Zambia: a discrete choice experiment

Human Resources for Health, 2019
Background Workforce shortages, particularly in rural areas, limit the delivery of health services in Zambia. Policymakers and researchers co-created this study to identify potential non-monetary employment incentives and assess their cost-effectiveness ...
Margaret L. Prust, Aniset Kamanga, Lupenshyo Ngosa, Courtney McKay, Chilweza Musonda Muzongwe, Mazuba Tamara Mukubani, Roy Chihinga, Ronald Misapa, Jan Willem van den Broek, Nikhil Wilmink   +9 more
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Factors associated with the non-retention of health sector employees recruited in Iran: a survival analysis

BMC Health Services Research
Background Health staff are an essential component of the health system and a significant factor in improving health outcomes. As a result, without a suitable number of trained and supported workforces, health-related goals will not be achieved.
Behrooz Rahimi, Faeze Ghasemi Seproo, Roghayeh Khalilnezhad, Mahmoud Khodadost, Tahereh Kashkalani, Fatemeh Younesi, Behzad Tadayon, Mahmood Samadpour, Mahboubeh Bayat   +8 more
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Donor financing of human resources for health, 1990–2016: an examination of trends, sources of funds, and recipients

Globalization and Health, 2018
Background Skilled health professionals are a critical component of the effective delivery of lifesaving health interventions. The inadequate number of skilled health professionals in many low- and middle-income countries has been identified as a ...
Angela E Micah, Bianca S Zlavog, Catherine S Chen, Abigail Chapin, Joseph L Dieleman   +4 more
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Characterising support and care assistants in formal hospital settings: a scoping review

Human Resources for Health, 2023
Background A 15 million health workforce shortage is still experienced globally leading to a sub-optimal healthcare worker-to-population ratio in most countries.
Vincent A. Kagonya, Onesmus O. Onyango, Michuki Maina, David Gathara, Mike English, Abdulazeez Imam   +5 more
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Coordinating health workforce management in a devolved context: lessons from Kenya

Human Resources for Health, 2020
Introduction In 2013, Kenya fully and rapidly devolved health services to 47 county governments under its new constitution. It soon became evident that the coordination mechanism to manage the health workforce at a county level was inadequate.
Mathew Kariuki Thuku, Janet Muriuki, Ummuro Adano, Linet Oyucho, David Nelson   +4 more
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Establishing a faith-based organisation nursing school within a national primary health care programme in rural Tanzania: an auto-ethnographic case study [PDF]

Global Health Action, 2016
Background: In 2007, the Tanzanian government called for improvements in its primary health care services. Part of this initiative was to accelerate the training rate for nurses qualified to work in rural areas.
Alexander Bischoff
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Investing in human resources for health: beyond health outcomes

Human Resources for Health, 2016
Human resources for health are necessary to the delivery of health services; only by securing a sufficient, equitably distributed, adequately supported and well-performing health workforce can any health goals and targets set by national governments or the international community be met [1]. In spite of the recognition of this central role in attaining
Giorgio Cometto, James Campbell
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